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It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

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Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

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Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

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But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.

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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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